Paragon Path: Frost-Fire Adept

One of the players in my 4e game is an eladrin wizard who uses flame and fire in tandem . . . I’ve whipped up the following as a possible Paragon Path for him.

FROST-FIRE ADEPT

“True magic is the science of balance; understanding the way fire and ice are brothers.”

Mastery of magic is fundamentally mastery of the elements. Most spells operate on some elemental level, be it calling forth a wall of fire, icing the ground beneath your opponent’s feet, or electrocuting someone with a touch; each of these spells draws its power from a primal element. Such knowledge is obvious to practicioners of the arcane, and is the reason many wizards specialize so deeply in mastering one element to call their own.

Not so you.

You have taken the two building blocks of arcane elements, fire and ice, and have unlocked ways to bend them to your will, to make them malleable. You’ve forged the process of fusing the two disparate energies together in a manner that is devastating. For when your fire scours your enemies they need fear your frost, and when your icy spells batter your foes they need to tremble at the burning blaze already forming in your palm.

FROST-FIRE ADEPT PATH FEATURES

Frost-Fire Action (11^th level): When you spend an action point to make an attack, if the attack has the fire keyword the creature is also slowed (save ends), if the attack has the cold keyword the creature takes ongoing 5 fire damage (save ends).

Frost-Fire Mixture (11^th level): You gain the Arcane Admixture feat (Arcane Power). If you already have this feat, apply this to another power. The power must either possess the cold or fire keyword, and the new admixed keyword must also be either fire or cold or fire.

Master of Frost and Flame (16^th level): You gain a +1 to attack creatures with resistance to cold or fire.

Winter’s Blaze

FrostFire Adept Attack 11

You freeze your foe in place before sending waves of fire cascading out from him.

Encounter * Arcane, Cold, Fire, Implement
Standard Action                 Ranged sight 20

Target: One creature
Attack: Intelligence vs. Fortitude

Hit: 3d6+ Intelligence modifier cold damage and the target is immobilized until the end of your next turn.

Secondary Target: Each creature adjacent to the initial target.
Secondary Attack: Intelligence vs. Reflex

Hit: 1d10 fire damage.

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Chill Flame Stance

FrostFire Adept Utility 12

With a gesture you fortify yourself and your spells with heat of flame and the chill of ice.

Daily * Arcane, Cold, Fire
Minor Action                 Personal

Effect: Until the stance ends, you gain resist 10 cold and fire. In addition, all of your spells with the keyword cold gain the fire keyword, and all of your spells with the keyword fire gain the cold keyword.

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Coldsnap Conflagration

FrostFire Adept Attack 20

A wave of bone-chilling cold sweeps out from around you a moment before the world erupts in flame.

Daily * Arcane, Cold, Fire, Implement
Standard Action                 Close burst 10

Target: Each enemy in burst
Attack: Intelligence vs. Fortitude

Hit: Intelligence modifier cold damage and target gains vulnerability 10 fire until the end of the encounter.

Miss: Intelligence modifier cold damage, but does not take on vulnerability.

Secondary Target: As the intitial targets
Secondary Attack: Intelligence vs. Fortitude

Hit: 4d8 + Intelligence modifier fire damage and ongoing 5 fire damage.

Miss: Half damage and no ongoing damage.

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I’ve done my best to assure that this paragon path is not overpowered . . . still the level 20 power is fairly bad-ass. I may have to take a little time to make sure it is in-line . . . I’ve already gimped my wizard player once (last night he lost some HP . . . I will do a campaign journal soon), and would hate to give him this, have him use it, it rock, and then say “Um, no.”